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u/Mount-Massive 6d ago
"I swear, sometimes I think I care about your health more than you do!"
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u/fondledbydolphins 5d ago edited 5d ago
"Healthcare is the number one issue these woods are facing!"
-Gibernie Sanders
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u/waluigi_apologist 6d ago
I like the foot holding the deer’s leg like “hang on you still got some on you, i’m almost done.”
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u/Educational-Job9105 6d ago
It's the same hold I have on my kids when they're trying to get away while I'm pulling something out of their ear. Lego, wax, something.
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u/majoraloysius 6d ago edited 6d ago
I swear that thing is about to saddle up, pull a rifle out of nowhere and lead a revolt against humanity.
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u/Diet_Clorox 5d ago
Gibbons would never, honestly. They're empathetic to a fault. The one at my zoo hung itself from a net after its mate died of old age.
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u/fuzedpumpkin 6d ago edited 6d ago
I've seen this happen as a kid. It was a monkey and that monkey was combing through the hair of a woman (they eat the lice).
Apparently you have to stay still and make no sudden movements because Indian monkey are known to slap/bite if the subject of their symbiotic relationship is shaky.
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u/WildSacredArt 6d ago
Maybe once we had that kind of relationship with wildlife
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u/pyrothelostone 6d ago
It's a matter of proximity. We spend much of modern life separated from nature, so wild animals don't trust us, becuase they don't know us, but there are countless examples of people developing relationships with wild animals, we are definitely still capable of having this kind of relationship with nature.
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u/NoNameeDD 6d ago
We also like killed 70% of wildlife.
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u/Nexdreal 6d ago
No i didnt
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u/NoNameeDD 6d ago
You definitely paid for it!
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u/Nexdreal 6d ago
I dont think so, i am not responsible for what other people do with money i paid for my basic necessities
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u/NoNameeDD 6d ago
I dont think thats true. If i pay serial killer to kill and he uses that money to kill, you really think there is no responsibility? You can either pay for goods and necessities that dont affect world in negative way or pay in a way it does.
Saying not my problem is first step in it being your problem. Even if you ignore it, its still your problem or atleast problem you create.
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u/strangebutalsogood 5d ago
This mf here thinking there is such a thing as ethical consumption under capitalism.
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u/Nexdreal 6d ago
Thats what i am saying, i am not paying anyone to kill animals, i am just buying toilet paper and whatever, neither do i buy from companies that are infamous for being bad in any way (be it related to wildlife or not). I do what i can, even while being poor and sometimes not being able to choose.
>I< am not going to take responsability in this, you people can blame the ones who are at fault, but there is no "we" in this, my conscience is clear.
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u/blammer 5d ago
We live in a society
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u/Nexdreal 5d ago
Yeah, but we still have personal responsibilities, it does no good blaming "society" for something and never making any change because its "society's" fault.
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u/Column_A_Column_B 5d ago
I dont think so, i am not responsible for what other people do with money i paid for my basic necessities
If i pay serial killer to kill and he uses that money to kill, you really think there is no responsibility?
Surely you're trolling...you can't seriously be making the argument knowingly employing hitmen (who use their pay to do their job) is some kind of example that money has unseen consequences.
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u/NoNameeDD 5d ago
Lets say, You know company X is known from slavery/actually killing people. Is buying from them/giving them money bad or good in Your opinion?
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u/Meraline 6d ago
We did.
We got livestock and dogs out of it.
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u/ButtWhispererer 6d ago
I spent 2 hours picking slime out of my dog’s hair that my child left around, so kinda the same.
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u/SenorElvez 6d ago
What really freaked me out was when he climbed on the deers back and rode away.
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u/wolfhybred1994 6d ago
This isn’t a normal thing all do? When we had a infront pool I a few times saw dragon flys and such fluttering in the water and I got dragonfly out on the skimmer and sat there holding it till its wings were dry enough to lift off the mesh. Then got it on my hand and walked around holding it for a good long while till its wings were dry enough for it to fly off.
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u/-percnowitzki- 5d ago
“im gonna recommend that you come see me at least 3x a week for the first two weeks. After that we’ll follow up and start to cut down on your visits if progress has been made.”
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u/No-Vast-8000 6d ago
Dude just looks like he's having a cold one working on his car.
"One if these days I'll get this old girl running. Pass me another Natty."
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u/Danominator 5d ago
"hey honey, just left work. Gotta stop by the gibbon for a bit and il be home after"
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u/GeneReddit123 6d ago
Videos like this make me wonder, do wild animals have an instinctive fear specifically of humans, more than of other animals, even of unrelated, humanoid species?
Because there's no way a deer (at least one that wasn't hand-reared by humans) would allow a human to get that close, never mind touch them.
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u/Lejonhufvud 6d ago
I think wild animals don't have inherent fear of humans, they don't simply know what humans are. But then again, many animals know what humans are. Some species may be more skittish than other.
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u/GeneReddit123 5d ago
There might be two hypothetical reasons I can think of:
Prey animals did evolve a specifically elevated fear of humans, because humans (all the way from the Paleolithic) hunted them long enough to influence their evolution. These prey animals didn't face the same threats from other apes (especially outside Africa), so the selection might have been limited to humans.
Wild animals use a partially-universal body language, including the "I am no threat" signal. Humans lost such body language at some point in their evolution (in favor of speech and human-specific gestures), so it's harder for us to signal the same intent to animals.
I don't know how true either is.
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u/Top_Explanation_3383 6d ago
It's amazing how often this occurs in nature with different species. Fish do it too
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u/kernel-troutman 6d ago
I wonder if he's able to do it without leaving the tick's head lodged in the deer.
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u/KevinAcommon_Name 5d ago
For a second I thought it was that video where a gibbon sat on a deer like one sits on a horse or pony and the deer walks around giving the gibbon a ride
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u/ctav01 6d ago
Do the deer get infections when the ticks are removed that way?
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u/butterflycole 6d ago
No, they regularly try rubbing them off on trees. I don’t think infection is a risk.
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u/dontheconqueror 6d ago
Inter-species interactions like this never ceases to be amazing. How did this even start generations ago?
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u/_this-is-she_ 6d ago edited 6d ago
These two are probably not fully wild. Humans who care for animals make it possible for there to be more friendships across species. Like those videos of dogs and ducks or cats and birds being friends. Those friendships would be vanishingly rare in the wild.
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u/External_Zipper 6d ago
That sort of thing is far more likely to occur when humans are supplying the food. When competition for food is eliminated then other animals can fulfill other roles.
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u/soulless_ape 6d ago
Anyone's else current or past gf exhibit this behavior? I wonder if they have ribbon DNA... /s
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u/Loose-Gold4920 5d ago
I can only imagine the stereotypical sassy hairdresser giving their client shit about the lack of self care
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u/Bingwazle 5d ago
Corporate needs you to find the difference between this and the video of the guy picking parasites off a whale
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u/Forsaken-Play144 5d ago
I think this is what humans were meant to be, imagine how sage like we could have been at this point if we were more like the monkey
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u/SweatyWing280 2d ago
There’s a documentary that shows something similar on Netflix narrated by Obama on national parks. Check it out. Symbiotic relationship amongst animals
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u/Rom-TheVacuousSpider 6d ago
Is the gibbon eating the ticks or just throwing them? Either way, the gibbon is being a bro.